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PL ATTSM O UTII SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
MONDAY, AUUUST 7, 1910.
TZhz plattemoutb journal
PUBLISHED SEMI-WEUKLV AT PLATTSJIOITH, NEBRASKA.
Entered at Postofflce at Plattsmouth. Neb., as second-class mall matter.
R. A. BATES, Publisher
SUBSCRIPTION PRICKl
THOUGHT FOR TODAY
It is heaven
upon earth to
J have a man's mind mere in
charity, rest in Providence, and
turn upon the poles of truth.
IJacon.
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Everybody is talking about it.
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Vhat is it they are talking about'
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The great
riattsmouth.
Home Coming m
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Kverythin.tr will .M'on be in readiness
f.r the reception of 20,000 people at
the '-Home Coming" festivities.
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Some people's morals are as loose
as the wrappers some women wear
about the house in the '"good old sum-
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Pe.-pite the heat, Cupid's batting
avragc is keeping up to the standard.
Tw home runs are already to his
crcd.ii this month.
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The factory explosion which shook
New York was heard in five states,
rot including five or six states in
the Entente, which also felt the shock.
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It is all right for boys to be boys.
and girls to be girls when they are
ifi that estate, if they will only be
men and women when they grow
up.
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Well. Mr. Hu-hrs has accented the
rt publican nomination and also eoual
stiff r igo. The next thing lie will ac
cept will he defeat at the polls next
November.
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There was one nv tor car to every
forty persons in the United States
l.'.-t year, indicating there are still a
! t of pedestrian- to bo killed off be
foie the ratio is even.
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Money is the only thing that is ex
pected to carry Hughes through, but
the people in this day and age can't
be bought as they could years past
as so many cattle anil hogs.
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A tlock of gyp.-ics is nnv touring
Kan. as in five automooi! Hen
; fter the Kansas hobo who cannot,
have a Fi.nl to travel in will refuse
to enter the confines of that state.
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There is some of the best material
u the democratic ticket this year
that the democratic party has had in
a long time, and it should receive the
support of every man who believes
in competency in public office.
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Piers are reported to have been
o ilking the cov s dry every night in
one section in the west part of the
state. The little suckers left several
families without milk, cream or but
ter, until the fact was discovered.
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Francis J. Henry, the Fan Francis
co progressive who was intrumental
in fighting the grafters in tho Gold-
n state a few years ago, has com':
out in a statement declaring that he
will hereafter ally himself with th?
'!-m cratic party.
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The National Hay Fever associa
tion will open August 21 in Bethle
hem, N. H. There are 200,000 sneezers
and sneezeres.se s and these sneeze
. id'ten sneezers sneeze about seventy
three sneezes a day for an average of
forty-one sneezy flays a year.
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Is A. L. Sutt-.n, the republican
candidate for governor, in favor of
discontinuing the ) ail way commission-of
Nebraska and place the con
trol of the business of thnt office in
ihc power of the United States com
mission? Speak up. Mr. ScUon. it is
fi question you will have to r-nswer bo
fore the voters go to the polls.
YEAR IS ADVANCE
UUCIIES ON FOKEUiX POLICY
Mr. Hughes is only human, after
all. He is no superman. Exceptional
as is his ability as a lawyer and spe
cial pleader he cannot do the impos
sible with words. If, as the candi
date and leader of the party seeking
to oust the Wilson administration
from power he had a strong and just
cause, grounded either on the weak
ness of the administration or the
merits and policies of its opponents
then Charles Evans Hughes could be
depended upon to put up a convincing
plea for that cause.
Hut Mr. Hughes has a weak cause
It is a cause, weak in the first place,
because the Wilson administration has
made such a record as it merits and
receives tne support oi me people u
has served so well. And it is a cause
weak, in the second place, because of
the record of the republican party, and
because of the lack of unity that ex
itsts among its leaders and members
as to principles and policies. This
leaves Mr. Hughes with nothing mvh
lie can safely talk about except to
criticise and attack his opponents. It
is distressing to see so talented a man,
and so able a lawyer, reduced to the
tactics of the traditional pettifogger
with a flimsy case, who slurs over his
own cause lightly and rapidly devotes
himself to noise and fury anel sweat
jr. lambasting the other fellow.
Outside the actual record of per
formance which the Wilson adminis
tration has made, there is nothing in
which democratic and independent
voters, responsible for that administra
tion being in power, can take greater
pride and comfort than in Mr.
Hughes' speech of acceptance. Hughes
is unquestionably, we think, the ablest
and cleverest leader of the opposition.
His ta'ents as a prosecutor fall little
short of genius. When he has spoken
to the extent of a full newspaper
page, after weeks of the most care
ful research and investigation de
voted to the hunt for flaws and weak
spots in the democratic record, the
last word and the strongest word in
criticism has been uttered. And the
more that long and thoughtfully pre
pared speech is studied, the more it
will stand as a tribute to the admin
istration that was so clean and faith
ful, so strong and successful, that the
most telling attack that could possibly
be made upon it resolved itself into
an utterance
vincing.
so weak and uncon-
As was expected, Mr. Hughes de
votes much of his attack on Wilson to
a criticism of the Mexican policy. He
indulges hrmself, here, in one of the
specific criticism on which he
thinks it safe to venture. Huerta
should have been recognized!
The plain and admitted facts are
the sufficient answer to that criticism.
Iluerta was a general in the Mexican
army under the established govern
ment presided over by Madero.
Treacherously and brutally he con
nived in a plot that resulted in the
assassination of his president, in th
imprisonment of many members of
the legislature, a great many of whom
were likewise murdered, and in
Huerta setting himself up as a mili
tary dictator in defiance of the con
stitutional provisions as to the for
mation of a new government. The
Huerta government ha4 no standing
in law and none in morals. It was
a fiendish, red-handed, ruthless usurp
ation. It was the same as if Geneiil
Wood, for example, should cause
President Wilson to be murdered and
the congress to be terrorized with
many of its members likewise mur
dered, and should then use the army
to back him in declaring himself ores
ident, trampling over the constitution
and through streams of blood and de
fying the rights of freemen to seize
unholy power. Suppose he .shr'il
f' en extend a red-dripping hand to
the governments of the world asking
PEK
that he be hailed as brother, and as
the true and worthy representative
and spokesman of the people of the
United States. Would Mr. Huhc.
would his party, rejoice in the recog
nition of such a president, on his bai g
perpetrated in power through the
friendship ami assistance of foreign
governments, on the loss of our libe
lies, and on the loss to the word of
the rule, laid down by our forefathers
that governments derive their jus
powers from the consent of the gov
crned?
We rather iancy not. And we
ve a notion that, outside the great
financial interests that were hand ii
glove with Huerta, and that expected
to share with him the loot of Mexico
Mr. Hughes can put in the corner of
his eye all the sympathy and support
he gains from liberty-loving Ameri
cans in his plea for Iluerta ani
Iluertaism.
President Wilson refused to recog
nize a government resting on murder
and a ravished condition. He left the
Mexican people free to continue their
tight for libit y. If they have not the
capacity to attain it that is no fauit
of his. He has striven, in tht main
successiiiliv, to protect American
rights in Mexico and on the border
and vet avoid war. He may not have-
been so "firm" as Mr. Hughes, or
Mr. Koosevelt would have been not
so nrm. tor example, as was .Aus
... v t
tria with Serbia. I he difference is
that the Hughes-Roosevelt-Austrian
policy is the kind of policy that has
precipitated the bloodiest war in his
tory, with no wrongs righted and no
settlement yet in sight, while the Wil
son policy has preserved the peace and
has now brought to the verge of set
tlement the serious differences that
have existed between Mexico and the
United States. The national guards
men, lor whom .Mr. Hughes is so
sc-rrv, are on the ooruer. it is true.
Cut they are not engaged in war with
ir,,(ion.i)00 people. Their mothers,
sisters, wives and sweethearts are not
scanning the daily papers to find
their names in long columns of the
killed and wounded. We think that,
on the4 whole, Americans will prefer
the policy of Wood row Wilson to the
policy of Francis Joseph, greatly
thouu'h the hitter appeals to Mr.
Huglu-.' and to his friend, Colonel
Roosevelt.
So as to our dangerous differences
with the great powers across the At
lantic, differences growing out of a
war so mighty and so desperate that
it is the :irest calamity that has ever
befallen humanity. Mr. Hughes crit
icises the president for not having
been firm enough to stop, before it
had begun, the German submarine
policy that caused the tragedy of the
Lusitania. It would have been easy
for Mr. Wilson to have precipitated
this country into war with Germany,
as Mr. Hughes' backer, Colonel Roose
velt, wished and expected him to do.
Uut Wilson avoided war. He wrote
notes instead. And by the means of
those despised notes, though with no
army to back him and without an ade
quate navy, he succeeded in inducing
the proudest and most powerful mil
itary nation on earth to abandon the
effective use of a weapon on which it
greatly relied for victory. In the
name of humanity and neutral rights
he was able to persuade Germany,
fighting desperately for self-preservation,
to tie its own hands and surren
der the great advantage which the
submarine afforded. He did it with
out bluff or bluster, without any ap
peal to force, by a wise admixture of
reason, patience, firmness, and con
fidence in the better nature of the Ger
man people. Not in all history has
diplomacy gained a greater victory.
No incident of modern times nas more
clearly attested the needlessness of
war. But we might have had war in
stead "war to the bridles." We
might have been "firm" in an appeal
to force, or the threat of force, just
as Austria-Hungary was ''firm" with
Serbia, just as Russia was "firm" in
backing up Serbia, just as Germany
was "firm in warning the Russians
not to be, just as France and Britain
were "nrm" in backing up their
mighty ally of the steepes. The re
sult of all their firmness has been
death, desolation, ruin. The result of
that other kind of firmness which Wil
son has displayed is pea?e with honor,
peace with prosperity, happiness in
stead of misery, progress and safety
instead of retrogression and disaster
No monarch, no ruler, no president,
in all history of civilisation, has ever
served his people better than Wood-
row Wilson served the people of the
United States in keeping them out of
war with Mexico and out of war with
Europe.
No ruler of ancient or modern
times has ever served more faithfully
as the champion of Christianity and
humanity than Wood row Wilson
served as, through days of darkness
and despair, of temptation and peril,
of provocation and calumny, he kept
the lamp of civilization steadily burn
ing in these great United States.
The people know it. The world
knows it. And the record has been
made in the broad light of day. All
men understand exactly what it is and
how it has been made. Against it the
torrents of Mr. Hughes" criticism, ami
of Colonel Roosevelt's abuse, will
dash themselves in vain, ror it is
the people, who, beyond the power of
mere words to express are the bene
ficiaries of that policy, who are to say
whether it is to be commended and
continued or condemned and discarded,
even as it was discarded in Europe in
Ihe fateful last days of Julv, 1011.
World Herald.
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The price of wheat is gradually ad
vancing.
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Villa has been defeated again,
ut
not mortal lv.
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We would rather be comportable
than be president.
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The best way to get something for
nothing is to work for it.'
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One of the principal events on the
urogram, sure to attract
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Keynote speeches often unlock
nothing but a great big mouth.
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No picnic proposition ever fell
through for the lack of a chaperon.
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Goo! corn weather does r.ot make a
good summer resort, that's certain.
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People who expect to begin saving
something next year are always poor.
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Anyway, there is this about the
climate. It is always breaking all rec
ords.
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The man who brings his check home
to his wife will not buv manv "wild
oats."
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Some people haven't enough will
'ower to stop when they ve saul
enough.
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There is no question but what au
tomobiles keep down the surplus
population.
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Good roads are labor-makers and
Htsiness produeers. Drag the roads
ind keep on dragging them.
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The republicans are not taking any
more 2 to 1 bets in New York. Of
course, they have the money, but they
don't feel like throwing it away.
There's nothing in a name; a rose
iy any other name would smell just
as sweet. A new bank has just been
tat ted in Omaha, and the name of the
cashier in Swindler.
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There are more than twenty million
of men fighting in different parts of
the world, and several million have
icon killed and wounded, but for the
ifc of us we can't remember just now
hat they are fighting about. Can
you ,
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The democrats haven't got any bet
ter show of carrying Nebraska this
fall than the republicans. Their suc
cess depends altogether, on organiza
tion. And the party who effects the
best organization is the one that will
vin out. This thing of depending upon
your personal popularity or past rec
ord goes for nothing. You promised
if elected to do your duty have you
tlone any more? Think twice before
you answer. Remember your opponent
is just as good a man as you are and
maybe a better organizer. If he is he
will get your goat. No candidate can
slip around on his good looks, because
that won't get him anything, either.
Local P3ews
From Friday's Daily.
William Wohlfarth came in thh;
morning from his farm home to spend
a few hours here visiting with his
friends.
Miss Garncy Cory departed yester
day for Pender, Neb., where she will
visit for a few days with her sister,
Mrs. Ed Brantner.
J. M. Palmer, one of the prominent
residents of Nehawka was numbered
among the boosters in the city last
evening advertising the picnic.
W. F. Moore of near Murray was
in the city today for a few hours
looking after some trading with the
merchants and visiting with friends.
A. E. Holmberg of Wausa, Neb.,
who has been here visiting with his
relatives and friends for a few days,
departed this morning for his home.
Miss Maiie Rookmeycr departed
this afternoon for Iowa City, la.,
where she will visit there with her
sister, Mrs. Lillian Freeman in that
city.
Miss Alma Speck returned home
this afternoon from Columbus, Neb.,
where she has been in atendance at
the bedside of her sister-in-law, Mrs.
Henry Speck, who is in a very cri
tical condition.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Wakefield and
two sons and Mr. Wakefield's mother
of Chicago, who have been visiting
Mr. and Mrs. Monti- Streight at Par
adise par!;, motored to Kan.as City
this morning where they will visit or
a few davs.
Editor W. II. Brown of the Union
Ledger accompanied ly Mr. Todd of
Dunbar was in the city for a few
hours yesterdav afternoon visiting
with friends. Mr. Todd is also a news
paper man and is associated with his
father in the Dunbar Review.
Perry Sampson of Portland, Ore.,
is in the city enjoying a visit at the
home of his sister, Mrs. Ed Reins and
family. Mr. Sampson is a former
Piattsmouth young man and will en
joy a visit here with old friends, and
if possible he will remain here for
the "Home Coming.'
Blair Porter returned hist evening
from an automobile trip to Creigh
ton. Neb., where lie visited at the
home of his brother, Wade Porter and
family. The trip made oy Mr. Porter
and family was most enjoyable and
they reported the conditions in the
north part of the sUite
lent.
is being exeei-
Henry Horn and wife were in the
eity today lot a few hours looking
after a few matters of uusiness with
the merchants.
Don C. Rhoden drove up irm Mur
ray yesterday afternoon and spt nt a
few hours here looking after some
business matters.
iliiar.i H. Mark, one of the promin
ent residents of Union was in the
titv vesienk.v afternoon for
short
vidt with friends.
Louis Reinhaekle, wife and little
daughter of near Murray motored up
this afternoon to look after some
trading for a few hours.
Prof. Frank Jean of Peru and wife
came in last even'or'- to eriov a few-
days visit here with their relatives
and friend- in this locality.
Mark White came up this morning
from his home near Rock Hluffs and
departed on the early Hurlngton train
for Omaha to spend the day.
George Rhoden came in this after
noon from his farm home southwest
of the city and will spend a few hours
here looking after some trading.
John Kraeger came in this morn
ing from his farm home to attend to
a few matters of business with the
merchants and calling on his friends.
Dr. G. II. Gilmore of Murray was in
the city yesterday afternoon for a few
hours looking after a few matters of
business anel isiling with his county
seat friends.
Henry Engelkcmeier and wife from
the vicinity of Murray were among
those going to Omaha this morning
where they will visit for the day
with friends in that city.
W. II. Seybert came in this morn
ing from his home near Cullom to
spend a few hours with his friends in
this city as well as looking after the
trading with the merchants.
Mr. and Mrs. William Sporer of the
vicinity of Murray drove to this city
this morning and spent the day visit
ing friends and attending to some
business matters. Mr. Sporer was ii
pleasant caller at this office.
Henry Engelkcmeier and wife of
near Murray departed this afternoon
for a few weeks visit to Cheyenne,
Wyo., and Pierce and Denver, Colo.,
with their relatives and friends. They
were accompanied as far as Omaha
by Will Kraeger.
P. W. Kraeger of the vicinity of
Murray motored to this city this
morning. He was accompanied by Mr.
end Mrs Henry Engelkemeier. who
departed for Pierce, Colo., and other
Colorado points where they will visit j
relatives and friends for a few weeks.
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Hon. W. 15.. iianning. of L'nion was
in ike city yesterday for a short time
vi.-itinir with friends in the county
seat ami while in the city was a caller
at the Journal o:!'.ce-. Mr. Panning is
vry busy right now with his business
interests, ami finds little time to get
cut.
John Kraeger of the vicinity of My
nard drove to this city this morning
to attend to some important business
matters and vi.-it friends for a short
ibnc. While here Mr. Kraeger took
time to ca!l at this office and have his
Mil script ion to the Daily Journal ex
tended for : ..other var. '
GOVERNOR TALKS WITH
STATE GUARD COLONELS
Lincoln. Neb., Aug. 7. The Ne
braska troops on tlie border are get
ting alonjr nicely and everything is
as nearly satisfactory as c,ou!d be ex
pected, according to a telephone mes-
sage received ny iiovernor .uoreneau
this afternoon.
The governor was called up over
the phone by Colonel Eberly and Paul
of the two Nebraska regiments and
for a few minutes carried on a con
versation with the two regimental
commanders. The talk was not as sat
isfactory as wished, owing to some
fault down in Texas, and the message
had to be repeated by the operator in
Dallas.
After assuring the governor that
everything was going finely, the exe
cutive sent greetings back to the boys
from the home folks.
Word comes from Lcs Gregory who
is running the 15. L. Philpot thresh
ing outfit in Chase county that they
are " eating up'' field after field of
fine wheat that is yielding from 2"
to o( bushels. They have an outfit
that is first class and is very much
in demand among the farmers of the
section. Go and sec for yourself with
Rosoiicram-. Weeping Water Republican.
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200,000 ACRES OF MONDELL LANDS
(FOR FREE HOMESTEAD ENTRY)
SPECIAL EXCURSION
To Douglas, Wyo., August 15th, 1916
I will conduct ;i special homegeukers' excursion leav
ing Omaha on our train 1M3, at 12:20 A. M. Wednesday,
Augu.st l;th, and from Lincoln at 2:lrj a. m. With me will
be several from Iowa and Missouri. We will all be together
tho morning oft the Kitlr, arriving at Douglas that evening.
CO WITH MKtosee these grass-coveted lands now open to favorable
entry by the l'.urlington's new passenger service to Douglas, Wyo. They ate
very desirable for t he live stock grower and dairy farmer. 320 acres may bu
humesteaded and acres purchased at not less than $1.25 per acre.
Lauds 7 to 10 miles cf the railroad.
Take this early chance to secure a Mondell homestead so near to t in's pro
pm
m i m -r
For Infants and Children.
Mothers Know That
Genuine Castoria
Always
Bears the
gnature
Of
THtt ccntu eonNr. Ht vonn CIT.
TREVIN READY
FOB BIG DRIVE
AFTER VILLA
Troops Proceeding North and South
Toward the Main Outlaw
Rand.
Chihuahua City, Mex., Aug. o'. Gov
ernment troops and Villa forces both
lost heavily in a sharp skirmish in
the hills a few7 miles north of Ma
pinii, Durango, today, according to
reports to General Jacinto Trevino.
Lieutenant Colonel Compean and a
dozen privates were killed, while the
bandit casualties were estimated at
eighteen.
The outlaws were driven far into
the hills, where they were scattered
in the canyons.
General Trevino announced that he
has completed the co-ordination of his
troops for the drive upon the main
bandit band under Villa and that
troops are advancing north from Dur
ango City to co-operate with those
under General Matias Ramos, going
south from Rosario, Parral, Jimenez
and Escalos. He said also that his
dispatches indicated that the country
east of San Antonio has been cleared
of outlaws, who have been forced into
the territory in the path of the ad
vancing de facto troops.
View the fine line of fancy station
ery at the Journal. We can fill the
bill.
CASTORIA
For Infants and Children
In Use For Over 30 Years
Always bearu
the
Signature of
sLhF
a Jrt !n
fk Use
y For Over
Thirty Years
IISTIIH
gresMve city of Douglas, Wyo. Ask me for the folders,
maps and information. My services are free.
R. W. CLEMENT, Agnt
L. W. Wakeley, General Passenger Agent,
1004 Farnaua Street, Omaha, Neb.